Synopsis
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
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Cast
- Jane AkreSelf
- Ray AndersonSelf
- Maude BarlowSelf
- Michael MooreSelf
- Noam ChomskySelf
- Mikela JayNarrator (voice)
- Rob BeckwermertActor - Dramatizations
- Christopher GoraActor - Dramatizations
- Nina JonesActor - Dramatizations
- Richard KopycinskiActor - Dramatizations
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
It’s coolheaded and incisive, a thorough and informative study of corporations, their origins and their place in the modern world. - 100
Premiere
Over the course of almost two and a half fascinating hours, they make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The Corporation has better manners and a longer fuse than ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' But the acerbic, sardonically illuminating Canadian documentary shares with its American cousin a certain bleak leftist glee in pursuit of its cause. - 80
Film Threat
Powerful, infuriating, and ultimately sobering. Make an effort to see it. - 80
Variety
A surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era. - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Too short to tell the whole story. It is, however, a fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative introduction. - 70
Village Voice
A leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's "dominant institution." - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Bakan's arguments are buttressed by entertaining clips culled from commercials, industrial films and, appropriately, monster movies.
